Daniel J. Evans
Daniel J. Evans
Daniel Jackson Evansserved three terms as the 16th Governor of the state of Washington from 1965 to 1977, and represented the state in the United States Senate from 1983 to 1989...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 November 1925
CountryUnited States of America
fellow lived naval officer signed street training
At 18 you got drafted. Another fellow who lived on the same street and I signed up for the V-12 program, which was the naval officer training program.
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It was a great party because not only did I win the contested primary, I ran ahead of the incumbent, so it was a great start politically.
college thinking community
I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.
graduation engineering degrees
I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.
graduation school thinking
I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.
war navy korean
I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.
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And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.
july navy
I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.
senior careers leader
The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.
math physics math-and-science
I was always good at math and science and physics.
war university
When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.
moving thinking people
I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best way to catch up was to move as fast as you could toward a degree.
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But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.
I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.